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The movie below may be the best 40 minute time investment ever. In it Eckhart Tolle’s simple description of ‘presence’ cuts through vast quantities of religion and philosophy to arrive directly to the essential elements. While what he is saying is not different from others like Krishnamurti, Tolle is much easier to understand and relates it to the common world around us. In this video he gives an elegant description of the power of ‘presence’ from someone who is in it, not from a theoretical perspective. Click the second image below to run the movie.  

T-3.V.1. I have said that the abilities you possess are only shadows of your real strength, and that perception, which is inherently judgmental, was introduced only after the separation. 2 No one has been sure of anything since. 3 I have also made it clear that the resurrection was the means for the return to knowledge, which was accomplished by the union of my will with the Father’s. 4 We can now establish a distinction that will clarify some of our subsequent statements. T-3.V.2. Since the separation, the words “create” and “make” have become confused. 2 When you make something, you do so out of a specific sense of lack or need. 3 Anything made for a specific purpose has no true generalizability. 4 When you make something to fill a perceived lack, you are tacitly implying that you believe in separation. 5 The ego has invented many ingenious thought systems for this purpose. 6 None of them is creative. 7 Inventiveness is wasted effort even in its most ingenious form. 8 The highly specific nature of invention is not worthy of the abstract creativity of God’s creations.  ACIM_perception – click here to open a PDF of the image above

Perhaps the most difficult thing to comprehend (we cannot understand it) in ACIM is the fact that it is completely 100% uncompromising. This applies to ‘forgiveness’, which is either practiced completely and without reservation or not at all. This is virtually impossible for the ego to accept, as it’s survival is based on being the sole doorway to ‘forgiveness’… in which it interprets as seeing the sinful act and judging the relative ‘sin’ of it then choosing to ‘forgive’ the evil doer. As the course points out however, acknowledging the reality of any ‘sin’ makes it real in our minds, at which point we proceed to ‘forgive’ or give charity to the one who we have just branded as unforgivable. Look, let’s admit it to ourselves, it just doesn’t work that way here or anywhere else. The course looks on ‘forgiveness’ in this way: “Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you. Do not let any belief in it’s realness enter your mind, or you will also believe that you must undo what you have made in order to be forgiven. What has not effect does note exist, and to the Holy Spirit the effects of error are nonexistent. By steadily and consistently cancelling out all its effects, everywhere and in all respects, He teaches that the ego does not exist and proves it.” This is again another form of one of the repeated foundations of the […]

From ACIM ‘The Way to Remember God’ “The light in them shines as brightly regardless of the density of the fog that obscures it. If you give no power to the fog to obscure the light, it has none. For it has power only if the Son of God gives power to it. He must himself withdraw that power, remembering that all power is of God. You can remember this for all the Sonship. Do not allow your brother not to remember, for his forgetfulness is yours. But your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered alone. This is what you have forgotten. To perceive the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remember God. For you forgot your brothers with Him, and God’s Answer to your forgetting is but the way to remember.” Click here to view/print as a PDF: The Way toRemember

A graphic view of the 5 Laws of Chaos from A Course in Miracles. Click the link below to view/download a PDF file of this image.

Wireless: The Dark Side of Convenience The ancient Romans became sickened by lead pipes bringing them drinking water. Today the story repeats with wireless. Something new is in the air. You can’t see it, hear it, smell it or feel it, but the cells in your body can. It’s called ‘wireless’. Wireless fills the air around us with microwave radiation used to communicate with devices like cell phones, tablet computers, and smart (utility) meters. The wireless age is revolutionizing the way we communicate, shop, and even live our lives – with devices like smartphones tapping into our ancient human need to communicate and belong. We’ve thrown open our hearts and minds (and brain-blood barrier, by the way) in our unquestioning embrace of this technology pushed onto us by government and industry… but has anyone stopped to ask: is this safe? How does this stuff really work? Or are we so desperately addicted already to our mobile devices that we no longer care to ask? Pardon me for mentioning it, but there is something industry would rather we not know: people are getting sick from wireless; there is a trail of ignored studies going back decades showing horrific dangers; our industry derived safety ‘guideline’ is obsolete and largely deceptive; and there is no proof whatsoever that this technology is safe – absolutely none. While Europe begins to awaken to the dangers and starts to step back, North America hurtles towards a potential public health disaster. Could it be that the ultimate […]